2001 patents
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Utility
Flowback aid for fracturing fluids
7 Nov 23
Methods of fracturing a subterranean formation include introducing a fracturing fluid containing an aqueous medium, a viscosifying agent and a polyethylene oxide alkyl ether through a wellbore and into the subterranean formation, pressurizing the fracturing fluid to fracture the subterranean formation, and allowing the fracturing fluid to flow back into the wellbore from the subterranean formation.
Samuel Danican
Filed: 18 Feb 16
Utility
Downhole centralizer
7 Nov 23
A centralizer operable to connect with and centralize a downhole tool within a tubular string within a wellbore and to facilitate reception of electromagnetic signals transmitted through the Earth.
Paul Leducq, Sebastien Isambert, Francois Chevillard, Fabio Cecconi, Vincent Chatelet
Filed: 25 Feb 22
Utility
Flow rate pressure control during mill-out operations
7 Nov 23
Systems and methods presented herein facilitate operation of well-related tools.
Richard Morrison, Sascha Trummer, Luis Silva, Zhanke Liu
Filed: 20 May 20
Utility
Shear ram for a blowout preventer
7 Nov 23
The present disclosure relates to a ram system for a blowout preventer.
Miguel Urrutia, Micah Threadgill, John Gregory Landthrip
Filed: 7 Jul 22
Utility
System and methodology for actuating a downhole device
7 Nov 23
A technique facilitates actuation of a downhole device, such as an isolation valve.
Cassius Elston, Thomas Meeks, Venkata Siva Reddy Battula, Ashish Sharma
Filed: 21 Apr 20
Utility
Method for obtaining unique constraints to adjust flow control in a wellbore
7 Nov 23
Methods, computing systems, and computer-readable media for determining flow control device settings.
Terry Wayne Stone
Filed: 4 Feb 19
Utility
Systems and methods of initiating energetic reactions for reservoir stimulation
7 Nov 23
Methods for initiating chemical reactions in a wellbore include delivering one or more reactive components via a carrier fluid to the wellbore.
Alhad Phatak, Garud Bindiganavale Sridhar, Douglas Pipchuk, Dmitriy Potapenko, Dean Michael Willberg, James Ernest Brown
Filed: 22 Mar 21
Utility
Displaying steering response with uncertainty in a heat map ellipse
7 Nov 23
A computer-implemented method including receiving a steering command identifying a tool face orientation in which the steering command is expected to produce an intended steering response of an intended drilling trajectory.
Samba Ba, Conie Chiock, Ginger Hildebrand, Maurice Ringer
Filed: 13 Jul 22
Utility
Slide drilling
7 Nov 23
Systems and methods for performing slide drilling and for determining operational parameters to be utilized during slide drilling.
Nathaniel Wicks, Ying Yu Fang, Jian Wu, Ginger Hildebrand, Steven Duplantis, Kam Lui
Filed: 28 May 19
Utility
Using high rate telemetry to improve drilling operations
7 Nov 23
Systems and methods for using high rate telemetry to improve drilling operations.
Nathaniel Wicks, Joergen Johnsen, Rui Pan
Filed: 30 Mar 20
Utility
Gas pressure measurement within cased wellbore systems and methods
7 Nov 23
A method for determining the gas pressure may include generating, via a downhole tool, neutron radiation in a cased wellbore of a geological formation and measuring a response to the neutron radiation.
Yevgeniy Karpekin, Heri Tanjung, Ashish Datey, Gustavo Dip, David Rose
Filed: 24 Oct 19
Utility
Methods and apparatus to measure formation features
7 Nov 23
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to measure a formation feature.
Jean-Christophe Auchere, Hiroshi Hori, Adam Pedrycz, Bharat Narasimhan
Filed: 27 Apr 22
Utility
Method and system for determining the flow rates of multiphase and/or multi-component fluid produced from an oil and gas well
7 Nov 23
A method and system for determining a flow rate of at least a phase or a component of a fluid produced from an oil and gas well are presented hereinafter.
Denis Syresin, Ivan Vrabie, Pavel Evgenievich Spesivtsev, Jean-Philippe Hussenet, Bertrand Claude Theuveny, Victor Korneev, Nikolay Tarelko
Filed: 29 Apr 21
Utility
System and method for fluid separation
7 Nov 23
This disclosure relates to a separating a fluid having multiple phases during formation testing.
Thomas Pfeiffer, Ashers Partouche, Kai Hsu, Simon Edmundson
Filed: 16 May 22
Utility
Mud pump valve leak detection and forecasting
7 Nov 23
A system and method for controlling a pump in a drilling system, of which the method includes determining a plurality of baseline behaviors for one or more valves of the pump, determining a plurality of in-use behaviors for the one or more valves of the pump.
Alejandro Camacho Cardenas, Vishwanathan Parmeshwar, Manat Singh
Filed: 15 Jun 20
Utility
Multiphase flowmeters and related methods
7 Nov 23
Multiphase flowmeters and related methods are disclosed herein.
Felipe Nogueira, Cheng-Gang Xie, Kun Yang, Arifin Arifin
Filed: 26 Jul 19
Utility
Seismic data interpretation system
7 Nov 23
A method can include receiving a digital operational plan that specifies computational tasks for seismic workflows, that specifies computational resources and that specifies execution information; dispatching instructions that provision the computational resources for one of the computational tasks for one of the seismic workflows; issuing a request for the execution information; receiving the requested execution information during execution of the one of the computational tasks using the provisioned computational resources; and, based on the received execution information indicating that the execution of the one of the computational tasks deviates from the digital operational plan, dispatching at least one additional instruction that provisions at least one additional computational resource for the one of the computational tasks for the one of the seismic workflows.
Michael Beam, Gilles Besançon, Cyril Lagrange, Jan Dolej{hacek over (s)}í
Filed: 10 May 19
Utility
Subsurface geophysical data system
7 Nov 23
A method can include receiving a request from a requester for subsurface geophysical data of a geologic environment; responsive to the request, authenticating the requester using a zero-knowledge authentication scheme; and, responsive to authentication of the requester, providing access to at least a portion of the subsurface geophysical data of the geologic environment.
Shankar Shailesh
Filed: 16 Dec 20
Utility
Real-time reconfiguration of phased array operation
7 Nov 23
Methods including determining a measurement plan, having acoustic measurements, and lowering in a borehole penetrating a subsurface formation a toolstring having phased array modules.
Orland Guedes, Mikhail Lemarenko, Hiroshi Hori, Jean-Baptiste Cozon, Beatriz Eugenia Otero Roldan, Nicolas Fradin, Roel Van Os, Ram Sunder Kalyanraman
Filed: 8 Feb 21
Utility
Wireless Switch for Perforation Tool
2 Nov 23
A switch for a downhole tool features a circuit board having a plurality of push connectors and a container for enclosing the circuit board, the circuit board making electrical connection in the container by pushing the circuit board into the container, or by pushing electrical connectors into the container.
Andrew Prisbell, Todd Busch, Atsushi Nakano, Hari Prakash Kalakonda, Steven Hernandez
Filed: 30 Aug 21